From the new site for spoof Labour posters. Click on the image to enlarge or you may miss the speech bubble! Compare and contrast the following headlines today: Daily Telegraph: Long-term unemployment highest since 1997 The Times: Number of people on the dole hits 13-year high Guardian: Unemployment claimant count rises again ITN: Long-term jobless total soars BBC: UK unemployment falls for second month in a row Saving Gordoom….it’s what … Continue reading
Question Time this Thursday hails from Middlesborough. It’s QT’s second visit to what the local council describe as the “flagship” town hall…which presumably means that it has sails on and the crew have scurvy. The panel this week include Roy Hattersley and actor Tom Conti. For those who wish to take part in the B-BBC Buzzword Bingo, we will be playing by the “Gosling Rules” meaning getting “Self-Publicist”, “Pillow” and “Murder” on … Continue reading
The Marxist theory of history, as studied in their rebellious youth by so many senior BBC people, emphasises the importance of economic factors and the relations between what were called ‘the forces of production’. From these relations and their associated class relations sprang all the other institutions of society – and even the consciousness of the individuals in each class. As P J O’Rourke puts it : “As a philosophic … Continue reading
Interesting watching Breakfast BBC this morning. With the latest employment figures out later this morning, the BBC is running the line that many people who have lost their jobs have found this to be a good thing since they have gone on to do other things that they enjoy. Oddly enough, during the 1980’s, I don’t recall the BBC running with such a benign view on job losses, do you? … Continue reading
The headline says it all…. “How Time Lord Doctor Who took on Mrs Thatcher.” Doctor Who actor Sylvester McCoy has claimed that scriptwriters of the cult TV show wrote material in the 1980s which was designed to undermine Margaret Thatcher’s government. Who would have thought THAT then? I mean BBC scriptwriters are all such a balanced lot. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Did you catch Jeremy Al Bowen on Today this morning discussing the killing of senior Hamas terroristMahmoud al-Mabhouh by unknown people in a Dubai hotel? Jeremy was quick off the mark to label this as Mossad killing but at no point did he, or indeed anyone else on the BBC, discuss the precise role this piece of Hamas filth played in the killing of innocent Israelis, nor for that matter … Continue reading
I see that BBC presenter Ray Gosling has been talking about how he smothered his gay lover who was dying from Aids. The BBC is enthusiastic about supporting “mercy killings” and this story is simply an extension of this narrative. I do not doubt the pain Mr Gosling and his lover went through but in the final analysis, smothering another human to death is a crime and it is a … Continue reading
New week, new open thread. The floors is yours… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
BBC seems disturbed that those who work in the State sector may have to share in the pain of the recession which at this point has almost exclusively been experienced by private enterprise. Whilst no one wishes any person to lose their job the harsh economic reality is that the State sector has grown fat and bloated under Labour and cannot be economically sustained. (Rather like the BBC in fact) … Continue reading
This was spotted by an eagle-eyed B-BBC reader, another shameless plug from the BBC for Nelson Mandela worshippers. It would be nice to see less politics injected into Sport. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
